More Blue LED's
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From: St Clair Shores MI - GO HOKIES
St. Jude Donor '05-'06
More Blue LED's
title says it all...whose next? Cost less than $10 in parts, there are four in the drivers door, 2 in the center console [only be 1 if you don't have mag ride] and two in the pass door.....
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From: St Clair Shores MI - GO HOKIES
St. Jude Donor '05-'06
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I did all the buttons after the polarity of each assembly was checked. The radio wasn't too difficult since the bulbs were mounted vertically; solder wick helped remove the old bulbs so the leds could be soldered in the same place. A trace was cut per led and a resistor was soldered over the cut. The manual temperature module needs extra leds (which are on order) and with wider viewing angle to fill all the logos. The wider angle leds are available from Ledtronics but aren't cheap. I used 453 ohm 1/8 watt metal film resistors for each blue led. The DIC buttons tend to filter out some of the blue because the light has to travel through a lot of material, those buttons by the way can be removed by pulling them out of the dash. By sanding the led with 800 grit sandpaper you can add a little diffusion to fill some logos better. If you like the gages near bright then the blue will work well but if you like the gages real low then the blue won't be very readable.
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Originally Posted by Fast one
I did all the buttons after the polarity of each assembly was checked. The radio wasn't too difficult since the bulbs were mounted vertically; solder wick helped remove the old bulbs so the leds could be soldered in the same place. A trace was cut per led and a resistor was soldered over the cut. The manual temperature module needs extra leds (which are on order) and with wider viewing angle to fill all the logos. The wider angle leds are available from Ledtronics but aren't cheap. I used 453 ohm 1/8 watt metal film resistors for each blue led. The DIC buttons tend to filter out some of the blue because the light has to travel through a lot of material, those buttons by the way can be removed by pulling them out of the dash. By sanding the led with 800 grit sandpaper you can add a little diffusion to fill some logos better. If you like the gages near bright then the blue will work well but if you like the gages real low then the blue won't be very readable.
